More odd discoveries
It seems I've been picking up a lot of odd information lately, so I thought I'd pick up on the theme from a couple of previous posts and regurgitate this mental lint I've been collecting.
(1) We think of Australia and New Zealand as being relatively close together, but in fact that's a big stretch of ocean, especially for early human settlers. While Austrialia and New Guinea where colonised about 40, 000 years ago, humans did not reach New Zealand until the ancestors of the modern Maori made the trip sometime between 800 and 1300 AD. This makes New Zealand one of the last large landmasses to be populated by humans.
(2) Britons need a pint to cry into. The EU has apparently conceded defeat in its effort to get the UK to switch completely to metric units.
(3) Turbine and power plant equipment manufacturer Siemens needs to reconsider some of the shorthand they use. My work does business with them, so I see some of the internal documents. The Canadian centre in Hamilton, Ontario is given the monkier "SHAM", the American headquarters in Orlando "SOR" (pronounce sore), the UK division is "SUK" and the main manufacturing division in Germany is Siemens Turbine Deutshland, or "STD".
(4) Russians need to have more sex. In an effort to boost flagging birth rates in parts of central Russia, workers were recently given a day off with the goal of concieving childern to be born on Russia's national day, June 12. If you manage to hit that magic date, some districts are even offering prizes or financial incentives such as educational aid or housing subsidies for families with 3 or more kids. Personally I think this is a great idea, and would love to have a paid holiday to go home and have sex.
(1) We think of Australia and New Zealand as being relatively close together, but in fact that's a big stretch of ocean, especially for early human settlers. While Austrialia and New Guinea where colonised about 40, 000 years ago, humans did not reach New Zealand until the ancestors of the modern Maori made the trip sometime between 800 and 1300 AD. This makes New Zealand one of the last large landmasses to be populated by humans.
(2) Britons need a pint to cry into. The EU has apparently conceded defeat in its effort to get the UK to switch completely to metric units.
(3) Turbine and power plant equipment manufacturer Siemens needs to reconsider some of the shorthand they use. My work does business with them, so I see some of the internal documents. The Canadian centre in Hamilton, Ontario is given the monkier "SHAM", the American headquarters in Orlando "SOR" (pronounce sore), the UK division is "SUK" and the main manufacturing division in Germany is Siemens Turbine Deutshland, or "STD".
(4) Russians need to have more sex. In an effort to boost flagging birth rates in parts of central Russia, workers were recently given a day off with the goal of concieving childern to be born on Russia's national day, June 12. If you manage to hit that magic date, some districts are even offering prizes or financial incentives such as educational aid or housing subsidies for families with 3 or more kids. Personally I think this is a great idea, and would love to have a paid holiday to go home and have sex.
posted by Colin at
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